Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alperovitz contacted King's aides about Vietnam Summer two weeks before the march, and King was immediately receptive to the idea. King was a logical person to enlist for support and publicity because of his highly-publicized switch from civil rights to the peace movement. The Negro leader agreed to issue a call for summer volunteers at the New York rally. His aides offered King's services on the weekend after the rally, when he would be in Boston for a speech at the Ford Hall Forum...
...time, the course was 12 weeks for $150. Now it is eight weeks for $175. Kilgo explains, "We found out that people were only attending eight of those 12 sessions, so we decided it would be more efficient to supply only eight in the first place." The switch must have proved immensely profitable. But a strange phenomenon has been occurring: now students are only attending an average of five of the eight sessions. Missing $65 dollars worth of teaching is not carelessness. The only plausible explanation is that students usually become so discouraged that they give up that infamous faith...
...year all classes are group and shy or overly active boys sometimes find the atmosphere stifling. If several impatient bright students are in a class, the teacher may not be able to give slow learners or boys with reading problems adequate attention. Some Challenge teachers think the program should switch back to the system it had used the first two years when 20 students had individual tutors and 20 had group classes...
...Weiner of the National Association of Home Builders last week predicted that a substantial upturn during the summer and fall will lift starts to a 1967 total of 1,300,000, as against 1,220,000 in 1966. Such optimism is based mainly on the Government's sharp switch toward easier credit. Interest rates on home mortgages have dropped faster than in any recent period in Federal Reserve records. Eastern investors who demanded a 6.6% and 6.7% return on their money last fall are now snapping up loans at 6%, and a few of them are willing to take...
...example, would concentrate on producing enough steel to supply its own needs and those of its neighbors, while another would build up, say, a chemical-fertilizer industry. Such a market, runs Johnson's argument, would help Latin Americans help themselves by making it profitable and desirable to switch from relatively isolated national markets to trading on a hemispheric scale...